Beneficiary incidence in 3rd quintile (%) - Contributory Pensions -urban by country

Percentage of program beneficiaries in a quintile relative to the total number of beneficiaries in the population

Countries reporting
35
Highest
25.4%
Chile
Lowest
10.8%
South Africa
Median
19.7%
Years covered
22
2002–2023
Data points
364

What the numbers show

Beneficiary incidence in 3rd quintile (%) - Contributory Pensions -urban is currently reported for 35 countries. The highest value is 25.4% in Chile; the lowest is 10.8% in South Africa.

The median across all reporting countries is 19.7%, and the mean is 19.3%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 2.

Over the past decade 19 countries rose and 16 fell. The largest increase was in Pakistan (up 45.7%), and the largest decrease in Bolivia (down 22.8%).

Beneficiary incidence in 3rd quintile (%) - Contributory Pensions -urb: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Chile 25.4% 2022 up 9.0% rising
2 Romania 24.0% 2021 up 12.5% flat
3 Uruguay 23.6% 2022 up 4.4% flat
4 Turkey 22.4% 2019 up 6.6% flat
5 Brazil 22.2% 2022 down 10.2% falling
6 Panama 22.0% 2023 up 15.3% rising
7 Russia 21.9% 2017 up 10.4% rising
8 Belarus 21.3% 2019 down 2.5% falling
9 Argentina 21.3% 2022 up 15.5% flat
10 Vietnam 21.2% 2020 up 16.9% falling
11 Serbia 21.1% 2022 up 3.4% flat
12 Pakistan 21.0% 2018 up 45.7% rising
13 Poland 20.7% 2019 down 4.8% flat
14 Mexico 20.4% 2022 down 4.4% flat
15 Ukraine 20.1% 2020 up 1.4% falling
16 Kyrgyzstan 20.1% 2020 up 11.3% flat
17 Sri Lanka 19.8% 2019 up 8.7% rising
18 Mongolia 19.7% 2020 down 2.4% flat
19 Albania 19.4% 2018 up 2.1% rising
20 El Salvador 19.0% 2022 up 10.4% rising
21 Moldova 19.0% 2018 down 12.2% falling
22 Armenia 18.8% 2022 down 10.1% flat
23 Costa Rica 18.6% 2022 down 4.8% flat
24 Thailand 18.5% 2021 up 12.9% flat
25 Kazakhstan 18.4% 2021 down 9.3% falling
26 Paraguay 18.3% 2022 up 20.3% falling
27 Ecuador 18.3% 2022 down 1.8% flat
28 Peru 16.7% 2022 down 14.3% flat
29 Dominican Republic 16.6% 2021 down 14.5% falling
30 Colombia 16.0% 2022 up 2.3% rising
31 Indonesia 15.9% 2022 down 20.0% falling
32 Bolivia 15.1% 2021 down 22.8% falling
33 Cote d'Ivoire 14.0% 2021 down 8.9% falling
34 Honduras 13.9% 2019 up 10.4% falling
35 South Africa 10.8% 2021 down 11.3% falling

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Beneficiary incidence in 3rd quintile (%) - Contributory Pensions -urban
Source
ASPIRE
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
36 places, 364 data points, 2002–2023
Last refreshed

Percentage of program beneficiaries in a quintile relative to the total number of beneficiaries in the population